Call-register for telephone systems.



No. 854,830. PATENTED MAY 28, 1907.

R; H. MANSON.

CALL REGISTER FOR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS. APPLICATION FILED 0011a, 1906.

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PATENTED MAY 28, 1907,

R. H. MANSON. CALL REGISTER FOR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS.

APPLICATION -FILED 00T.l8, 1906.

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UNITED STATES RAY n. MANSON,

COMPANY, OF ELYRIA, OHIO,

gTEN'r OFFIOE.

OE ELYRIA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DEAN ELECTRIC A- CORPORATION OF OHIO;

CALL-REGISTER FOR TELEPHONE SY STEMS' Specification-of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28, 1907.

Application filed Oct ber 1s,'19oe.' SariaINo. 339.493.

To all whom it concern;

Be it known that I, RAY H. MANSON, a citizen of the'United States, residing at Elyria,

in the county of Lorain Y tion,

and State of'Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Call-Registers for Telephone y'stems, of which the following is a specificareference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawing.

Myinvention relates to call registers for tele hone systems, and has for its object the many reasons the ister to be used in systems where the registers are located at the central office,

or if. the. message-count is based upon tickets made out by the Operators,.it is not only very diflicult to prevent losses, but it is more difficult to. satis y the subscribers that false charges are not made against them, By perwould. otherwise be lost.

mitting the subscriber to register-his own call, in such fashion that he can see and count the number of messages he has sent, at all times, three important ends are attained. The first is to satisfy the subscriber; the second is to relieve the operator of an unde-' sirable addition to her work, and the third is to assure greater accuracy in the final records, with attendant saving of many calls which It is true that with this system inspectors mustbe sent out to read the meters at stated intervals, but this has always been done in'other public service systems, such as those supplying gas and electric light, and the expense of the mspectors has never been found prohibitive to my knowledge.

Several difficulties have heretofore existed in respect to subscribers registers. They have been subject to being tampered with,' they have not been susceptible of application to all types of instruments, and they have not always been foolroof which is a sine qua. l the subscribers non. Anything p ac'ed at 4 -.station must be capable of operating only as it isinton'ded to perform its function. If any ossible means exist for misoperating, or-nnsha'ndlin'g a piece of apparatus,', the subscriber- 'movement of the latter.

or some of his family will find it. Practically the only act which the average person should be asked to perform in Operating any apparatus is to push a button or lever. The intpllligence of the untrained extends no furt er.

It has been proposed to attach registers to different portions of the telephone set, and

toll boxes have been so attached, the idea being that a special sound produced in the dropping of a coin will produce s'onorous vibrations in the frame or casing, thence in the transmitter, and thence by transmission Over the line, in the operators receiver. Such devices have not always worked well, for one reason because it is now common to insulate the diaphragm of the transmitter with a soft rubber band, which acts as a sound insulator as well as electrically. It has also been proposed to paratus or the like to the transmitter itself, but the attachment has always been unsatisattach some portions of the toll apfactory because being detachable of necessity,

it could be taken off by other thanauthorizedpersons, and being fixed to other members than the transmitter, it necessarily limits the Again, the sound reeds of the registers now in use have not been properly controlled and such being the case were allowed to vibrate with both opera tions of the lever, giving the operator at central the impression that. two distinct registrations had been made.

Briefiy stated my invention comprises as its characteristic and essential features a Veeder cyelometer register operated by a thumb lever, whichat the same time snaps a pin back and forth over a reed. This reed is provided-with a damper spring normally preventing any vibrations; and when the pin 1s pushed forward to register the damper is held back thereby at the same time that the reedis snapped, but on the return travel of the pin although the reed is again snapped it does not vibrate because the damper is in contact with "it. The working parts are ,'mounted on. a

plate or strip adapted to be inserted within the shell of an or'dinary'granular transmitter i or desired mounted upon any suitable portion of the slip When placed wit ter an extension ort. or mounting thereof. inthe shell of the transmit. 1p 5 r thereof serves tov cover'the I working partsof the register; but when sepa .rately mbunted an individual case or covering tlielline wires. I have taken advantage. of

must be provided. The use of a damper spring in a device of this kind I believe to be original with me. This simple device makes it impossible for the subscriber to start the reed in vibration by tapping the case of the transmitter or by slightly pressing the lever and releasing is so as to allow it to snap against the stop.

While I have illustrated and described a specific form of the invention, in which the reed and damper spring are in mechanical connection with or mounted on the lever, I am not limited to the specific details, because. there are several changes which can be made without altering the character of the invention. For example, the damper spring may be mounted on the lever itself and so arranged as to press against the reed at all times excepting-when the down to its full extent.

My invention is illustrated in panying drawings inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trans.- mitter with my improvement mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the de-' vice removed from the casing. Figs. 3 and t are diagrammatic illustrations showing the operation of the signal reed. Fig. 5 is a re'' duced fra mentary view of the transmitter casing an its support showing the. manner of using the supporting plate.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a transmitter front, 2 the mouth-piece thereon, and 3 the inclosing casing, all of the ordinary or any desired type. Integral with the easing 3, is an extension shell 4' having airont' plate 5 apertured at 6,- 7

In all transmitters of the present type,'the inclosing shell 3 isprovided'with three openings, two for the attaching screws and one for lever is pressed the accomthis fact andhaveprovided the register supporting late 7 .With a rtures 8 adaptedto. receive t e screws 6 w ich attach the transmitter to the support or arm 7 This plate is also provided with an aperture 9 which registers with the line wire aperture in thein- ClOSlIl shell. 3. It; will be seen, therefore,

that t e-means for securing the-transmitter;-

to this support, also secures the register sup? 1 porting plate 7 in position within the inclosing shell.

Theregister, as I have stated, is of the Veeder cyclometertype and is secured to the end 19 formed upon the supporting plate and a ch 20 secured to the plate by screws'20".

This clip 20 may be and preferably isadjustably attached.

Secured to the shaft 14 of the register 15 is an operating lever 16 provided'at-one end with a thumb piece 24,- projected' from the casing 4, and at the other'end with an operating stud 25 which "engages in both its forward and retrograde movements the T-.

porting plate 7 is held normally in engagement with the T-shaped head 13 of the reed 12, and the spring 17 is secured to the lever].

16 at one end forward of its pivotal point and at the other end to the supporting plate 7, so that the lever is automatically returned to the. normal position after each operation. In

the levers initial movement it abuts against the stop 21 formed by bending a tongue up from the supporting plate so as to project in the path of the lever.. .The retrograde movement of the lever islimited by the stop 22 secured beneath the spring 17- .o n -the support- .ing plate.

The operation is as follows: After calling the operator at central in the usual manner and being told to re ist'er, the subscriber presses upon the thum -piece 24,thus operating the lever to carry the stud 25 over the T-shaped head 13 of the sounding'reed 121 .When the upper end of the T shaped head reached, the stud'25 slips off andengages the damper spring 18, which, if the lever is now carried to its extreme position, presses the damper spring away from the reedand allows it to,vibrate, thus giving a'si'gnal which is transmitted to the operator at central. In

the return movement of the lever, the operating stud '25 goes back to 'normalposition upon the opposite sideof the T-shaped head of the reed. When the stud reaches-its normal po .sition, the reed is disengaged so as to snap back into its normal position, but as the damper spring has been released by the stud and is now in engagement with the free end of the reed, the latter will not vibrate. Thus, while'the r ed is strained hack and released, inopposit directions, twice in a complete movement of the. lever (down and back);v

.there will be'only one sounding thereof and therefore only one signal given to the operajj tor, and there will be no continued vibration to interfere Withspeech transmission. The T end of. the reed is made sufficiently long to compel the lever to go through its completecycle, up one side and down the other, efore a number can be properly registered on the meter. This reed is also made and supporting plate 7 by means of the hooked. 1 the ratchets on the counter will work slightly "before the stud-25 reaches its limits.

adjusted with respect to the register so that This prevents the subscriber from giving a signal Without causing the counter to register.

While I have illustrated my invention in the most convenientway, it will be clearly understood that manymodifications and changes 'might be resorted to in practice With0ut departing in any Way from the spiritv or scope of the invention, and I wish it clearly understood, that all such changes and modifications are contemplated by me and are withinthepurview of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, What "I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is a 1. A call register for telephone service hav ing means for directing a signal to the transmitter and means for damping said signal :0 4 i i device through one movement of the operating means. I

4. A call register for telephone systems, comprising a registering device and a sounding device, means for snnultaneously operating. said devices Whichoperates the sounding device in both directions of its movement, and 'a spring for damping the sounding device through one movement of the operating means.

5. A call register-for telephone systems comprising a registering device and a sounding device, means for operating both simultaneously, said sounding device being oper- I ate d twice during one operation of the, operati-ngmeans, and meansfordamping said signal device during a portion of the operation,

6. In a call register fortelephone systems the combination with a transmitter, of a registering device carried thereby, a sounding device carried thereby,means for operating both of said devices simultaneously in one direction of its movement and for operating the signal device onlyin one of its directions of movement, 'andkmeans for damping the signal device during the second movement of the'o erat'm means. V 7. In a ca register for telephone systems, the combinationwitha transmitter, of a registerin device carried thereby, afsoundmg;

reed a so; carried thereby, a lever for operating the: registering device and sounding'reed simultaneously its initial movement,mean s' ioriautomatically returning the lever: to'nor- Witnesses:

mal position, and means preventin the repetition of the vibration of the reed uringthe return movement of the lever.

8. In a call register for telephone systems, the combination with a transmitter, of a registering device within the casing of said transmitter, a sound producing reed Within the'casing of the transmitter, a lever for op-, erating said registering device in its initial movement, means for returnin said lever to normal position, means'carrie by the lever for engaging and operating the sounding reed in both movements of ,the lever, a damping device in normal engagement with the reed Whichprevents its vibration on the return movementof the lever, and stops to limit the movement of the lever in both directions.

9. In a call register for telephone systems, I

the combination with a transmitter, of a supporting plate secured Within the shell of the transmitter, a registering device mounted upon said supporting plate, a sound producing reed carried by said supporting plate within the transmitter casing, a'le'ver secured to the shaft of said registering device and adapted to operate it in the initial movement of the lever, means for returning thelever to normal position, an operating stud on the lever which engages and operates said sound producing reed during both movements of the lever, a damper spring normally in engagement with said reed but adapted to be pressed 'awaytherefrom to allow the vibra tion of the reed in one movementof the lever but to engage the reed and prevent its vibration during the opposite movement of the lever, and stops for limiting the movement of said lever in both directions. Y

10. In a call register for telephone systems, the combination With toll registering and sig- 'nalin devices, of a base plate for supporting said evices, a transmitter, and means for securing the base plate to the transmitter, said means also securing the transmitter to its support.

11. In a call register for telephone systems, the combination with a transmitter, .of toll registering and signaling devices in said "transmitter casing, and means to secure said .devlces therein, said means also securing the transm tter toits support.

' Intestimony whereof I aflix my signature presence of two witnesses.

RA n. MANSON;

MItLLARD TAY OR, W; G; STRONG. 

